Translated Text of Third Secret of Fatima

Published on: July 10, 2000

Forwarded to Project X by Mark Andrews

From CNN.com

June 26, 2000

Web posted at: 6:13 a.m. EDT (1013 GMT)

VATICAN CITY (CNN) - This is the translation from Portuguese of the
famed third secret of Fatima that three children believed they received
from the Virgin Mary on July 13, 1917, in Portugal. It was written by the
surviving member of the trio, Sister Lucia, in January 1944, and released
by the Vatican on Monday.

TEXT: I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through
his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and
mine. After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of
Our Lady and a little above, we saw an angel with a flaming sword in his
left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would
set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour
that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the
earth with his right hand, the angel cried out in a loud voice: PENANCE
PENANCE PENANCE. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something
similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it'
a bishop dressed in white 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father.'
Other bishops, priests, men and women religious going up a steep mountain,
at the top of which there was a big cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a
cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through
a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted
with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on
this way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot
of the big cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets
and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the
other bishops, priests, men and women religious and various lay people
of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the cross there
were two angels each with a crystal aspersoium in his hand, in which they
gathered up the blood of the martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that
were making their way to God.